CRYO Project. Aerospace Engineering
Last week, the CRYO project successfully passed the CDR, a new milestone in this EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY-funded project, which aims to develop a low-frequency, broadband circularly polarized power supply to excite future Earth observation radiometers, which will be used to study the cold regions of the Earth in depth.
These radiometers will make it possible to collect information on key parameters in polar areas, such as ice cover, ice volume or sea surface salinity, which currently cannot be adequately monitored by state-of-the-art instruments. In fact, it will be possible to study their effect and relationship with global climate change.
During this first phase of the project, EOSOL has been in charge of the design of the broadband power supply. AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE, has provided its vision at the complete antenna level, including the housing of the feed unit on the platform and the consolidation of the antenna requirements.
As a result of this work, a challenging array feed cluster has been designed that meets the demanding specifications to meet the mission objectives.
From now on, the project enters a new phase in which a prototype of the designed feed will be fabricated and measured.
